◆ On this day

July 23

4 sourced moments from July 23 in history: William Burt patented the typographer, an early forerunner of the typewriter (1829); Ford Motor Company sold its first car (1903); Telstar Beams Live TV Across the Atlantic (1962), plus 1 more.

‹

›

M 20 T 21 W 22 T 23 F 24 S 25 S 26

4 things happened on July 23

newest first ↓

1995 Space · Solar System

Comet Hale-Bopp was found in 1995, beyond Jupiter's orbit

Two observers spotted Hale-Bopp on 23 July 1995 while it was still 7 AU from the Sun, two years before it lit up the sky.

Read →

1962 Technology · media-communication

Telstar Beams Live TV Across the Atlantic

In 1962 a beach-ball-sized satellite carried live pictures across an ocean for the first time, shrinking the world overnight.

Read →

1903 Society & Economy · Business & Markets

Ford Motor Company sold its first car

A Chicago dentist bought a sputtering two-cylinder runabout, and a near-bankrupt startup became the company that would put America on wheels.

Read →

1829 Technology · Inventions

William Burt patented the typographer, an early forerunner of the typewriter

On July 23, 1829, American surveyor William Austin Burt won the first US patent for a writing machine — the typographer.

Read →